Show Details: December 1999
1999-12-04
- First: Adam Felber 14 (Start: 4 / Correct: 5)
- Second Tied: Roxanne Roberts 13 (Start: 3 / Correct: 5)
- Second Tied: Charlie Pierce 13 (Start: 3 / Correct: 5)
Who's Carl This Time?; Panel Questions; Listener Limerick Challenge; Not My Job about emergencies in the news; Panel Questions; Who's Carl This Time? #2; Bluff the Listener about something high-tech that really didn't need to go high-tech; Lightning Fill-in-the-Blank; Panelist Predictions: what will be the next rule for Sylvester Stallone's employees?
The rules for the Listener Limerick Challenge were read by Scott Turow.
The listener contestant for the second Who's Carl This Time? segment was calling in from the South Pole, Antarctica.
The Bluff the Listener contestant was looking each of the Bluff the Listener stories online to see which panelist was telling the truth. Peter Sagal jokingly said that the listener was cheating.
1999-12-11
- First: Roxanne Roberts 19 (Start: 7 / Correct: 6)
- Second: Sue Ellicott 14 (Start: 2 / Correct: 6)
- Third: Adam Felber 10 (Start: 2 / Correct: 4)
Who's Carl This Time?; Panel Questions; Listener Limerick Challenge; Not My Job about Main Street America; Panel Questions; Who's Carl This Time? #2; Bluff the Listener about an unlikely lecture; Lightning Fill-in-the-Blank; Panelist Predictions: what will be the next hidden talent of Al Gore's to be revealed?
The show page on NPR.org has details for the show that aired on 1999-11-27.
1999-12-18
- First: Charlie Pierce 11 (Start: 3 / Correct: 4)
- Second: Roy Blount, Jr. 9 (Start: 5 / Correct: 2)
- Third: Sue Ellicott 8 (Start: 2 / Correct: 3)
Who's Carl This Time?; Panel Questions; Listener Limerick Challenge; Not My Job about a kinder, gentler law enforcement; Panel Questions; Who's Carl This Time? #2; Bluff the Listener about a one-of-a-kind package tour; Lightning Fill-in-the-Blank; Panelist Predictions: what the United States will give away next?
1999-12-25
- First: Roxanne Roberts 13 (Start: 3 / Correct: 5)
- Second: Charlie Pierce 11 (Start: 3 / Correct: 4)
- Third: Roy Blount, Jr. 8 (Start: 4 / Correct: 2)
Who's Carl This Time?; Panel Questions; Listener Limerick Challenge; Not My Job about winter holidays from the past or afar; Panel Questions; Who's Carl This Time? #2; Bluff the Listener about Santa problems in the modern world; Lightning Fill-in-the-Blank; Panelist Predictions: how a famous politician might be reincarnated?
Year in Review edition of Wait Wait... Don't Tell Me!